Thrissur is about 80 kms from Kochi airport. On one of my official duties, I was in NPOL Cochin during 7 March 010 upto 11 March 2010. On Monday, 8thMarch 2010, I went to C-MET Thrissur to hear to the lecture of one of the world renouned Professor R Rao Tummala. Professor is Packaging GURU who has developed the first packages for Personal Computers and is leading the world till date. The lecture was arranged in LuLu International convertion cenre and it is very useful and Memorable lecture.
In the afternoon 3PM to 6PM i have spend visiting the C-MET lab. and discussing the things of importance for my work. This is the fruitful trip as I have found the necessary inputs for my immediate needs in the subject field. At 6PM, I started back to Cochin Guest House. On the way, we visited the SREE VADAKKUNATHAN temple. POORAM festival is one of the main attractions in Thrisuur. This is a huge temple. Temples in Kerala have special bunglow type strucutres and are different from the huge sotne carved structures of Andhra, Karnataka and Tamilnadu.
Before the entry into the main temple area that is after crossing the first Prakaram I have removed my shirt and banian and went inside. There are more temples inside the main temple Vadakkunathan Shiva linga with a tall half moon shaped golden petals one on top of the other around 21 nos. and at the top Nagabharam Hood of Naga. The main diety has to be worshipped from a long distance of atleast 10 meters so, it is seen from a distance. Worshippers are not permitted inside the main diety and garbha gudi. Only one book is available without photos (27 pages) from the temple side. that describes the stala purana. Parasurama has created this temple at the Moola stana the tree outside the temple where we were not supposed to sit.
The deity Shiva is in the form of a big ‘mahalingam’. Here the main offering is ghee. The devotees brought ghee pours on the ‘lingam’ The years’ offerings has concealed the lingam. At present the devotees can see only a mound of ghee. As a miracle, the ghee does not melt or emit any smell, though in summer the temperature rises upto 35 degree C. It is said, part of the ghee is more than 1000 years old. The ghee will not be removed. If and when any portion of the mount is collapsed, the same will be sold. If a collapse is taken place, it is believed as a sign of some evil about to happen inThrissur. Seven years back there was a partial collapse of ghee prior to the Pooram and during the Pooram a fireworks accident snatched the life of three.
Before the entry into the main temple area that is after crossing the first Prakaram I have removed my shirt and banian and went inside. There are more temples inside the main temple Vadakkunathan Shiva linga with a tall half moon shaped golden petals one on top of the other around 21 nos. and at the top Nagabharam Hood of Naga. The main diety has to be worshipped from a long distance of atleast 10 meters so, it is seen from a distance. Worshippers are not permitted inside the main diety and garbha gudi. Only one book is available without photos (27 pages) from the temple side. that describes the stala purana. Parasurama has created this temple at the Moola stana the tree outside the temple where we were not supposed to sit.
The deity Shiva is in the form of a big ‘mahalingam’. Here the main offering is ghee. The devotees brought ghee pours on the ‘lingam’ The years’ offerings has concealed the lingam. At present the devotees can see only a mound of ghee. As a miracle, the ghee does not melt or emit any smell, though in summer the temperature rises upto 35 degree C. It is said, part of the ghee is more than 1000 years old. The ghee will not be removed. If and when any portion of the mount is collapsed, the same will be sold. If a collapse is taken place, it is believed as a sign of some evil about to happen inThrissur. Seven years back there was a partial collapse of ghee prior to the Pooram and during the Pooram a fireworks accident snatched the life of three.
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